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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'New tops',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2019/08/14.jpg" alt="A path between properties" class="framed-centred-image" width="800" height="480"/>
<section id="diet">
	<h2>Dietary intake</h2>
	<p>
		For breakfast, I had 84 grams of cereal and 171 grams of soy milk.
		For lunch, I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and eight potato nuggets.
		For dinner, I had a veggie patty, pickle, and tapioca cheese sandwich with eight potato nuggets.
		Throughout the day, I snacked on 331 grams of pretzels.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion posts for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Now that you mention the home screen might technically be an activity provided by the launcher application.
			However, that still doesn&apos;t change that the wrong type of widget was discussed here.
			The widgets the discussion assignment is about are the ones used to define the interface of an application, not ones that are defined in one application to be viewed from another application.
			The widgets discussed in this post are still off-topic for the discussion assignment.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The Webkit widget you mentioned is interesting.
			You can embed a Web browser within your applications.
			This allows you to update parts of your application remotely by simply having them be webpages that the application loads.
			Of course, the flip side of that is that it uses the data plan, costing users, and if there&apos;s no connectivity, the data isn&apos;t available to be displayed at all.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I got my final exams taken tonight so I don&apos;t have to take them tomorrow.
		I&apos;ve missed being able to do that, but when I have to get my exams proctored, I can&apos;t exactly take them right when the exam period begins, at 22:00.
		I still need to finish up the learning journal assignments tomorrow, but after that, my long-awaited break begins.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="Minetest">
	<h2>Minetest</h2>
	<img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_3.0/minetest.net./weblog/2019/08/14.png" alt="An aqueduct leading water into the Languescent Mine mineshaft" class="framed-centred-image" width="1024" height="600"/>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve done some scouting ahead in all four compass directions, and it seems the easiest jungle to get to is south of World&apos;s Navel.
		That&apos;s the direction I should be heading, not north.
		I&apos;m going to need to stockpile a lot of logs to get there though, so it seems like stockpiling logs and building out the bridge should be my goal for now.
	</p>
	<p>
		However, I still haven&apos;t built the ladders to put in the mineshaft I&apos;m abandoning to help me get my leaves back out.
		Stockpiling logs and building the ladders seems like it should be my goal as well.
		It&apos;d take only three stacks of logs too, so it&apos;d be a quicker goal to reach than building out the bridge.
	</p>
	<p>
		Even with a chest full of logs though, I don&apos;t have enough rails to reach the jungle.
		Building the new mine, which will use powered rails to enter and exit quickly, likewise seems like the proper direction to head.
	</p>
	<p>
		Honestly, I&apos;m torn as to which of the three options to take.
		And of course, there&apos;s also lesser things I could work on, such as building more things on the island itself.
		I don&apos;t know what I&apos;d want to build without new materials though.
		The materials I&apos;ve got are getting rather boring.
		I started out with the new mine a bit though.
		I need mese before I can travel out very much anyway.
		I named the new mine the Albert Herpin Mine, named after someone that purportedly had never slept in their life.
		After a bit, I remembered an old plan with the original mine: I&apos;d thought about dumping water down the mine instead of building up ladders.
		It&apos;d save me so much wood, and because I&apos;m planning to abandon that mine anyway, the water won&apos;t be in the way too much.
		So I set up an aqueduct to lead some of the ocean water over to the mineshaft.
		I&apos;ve now named that mine the Languescent Mine.
		Until the Albert Herpin Mine gets deep enough to show me the mese, I&apos;m going to need to work in the Languescent Mine still to get the rails I&apos;m laying on the way into the Albert Herpin Mine, but once I strike mese again, the Languescent Mine will pretty much only be used for leaf- and gravel-grinding.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="accounts">
	<h2>Accounts</h2>
	<p>
		I didn&apos;t mention it before, but the registry people, when they first responded to me and asked which domain I had, pretty much told me they shut down the separate service they&apos;d been hosting $a[DNS] for some customers (including myself) for.
		With my domain still operational, I figured it&apos;d gotten rolled into the main service.
		My one account was locked, sure, but as long as I could get into the other account, it didn&apos;t matter.
		Today, they told me the email address associated with the account.
		Apparently, it was one of my spam-trap email addresses.
		I hadn&apos;t thought to try the spam-trap address I would have used.
		I&apos;ve updated the information on that account in my password manager, so I&apos;ll be able to get in next time.
		When I logged in with that email address, I found the $a[DNS] records had indeed been transferred over, but also, much of my personal information was out of date.
		I&apos;d fixed it in the whois records, but I guess they had separate records for me that I hadn&apos;t known about, or at least hadn&apos;t remembered.
		So those are up-to-date now.
	</p>
	<p>
		I don&apos;t remember what I initially tried to log in to look up in the account though.
		Maybe it&apos;ll come to me later.
		At least I can get into the account again now.
	</p>
	<p>
		The email account people responded.
		Again, this confirms I submitted the ticket.
		I&apos;m lost as to why the automated email about my ticket is suddenly gone though.
		Anyway, they say they&apos;ve unlocked the account, though I already found it&apos;s unlocked now.
		I&apos;m so confused as to what&apos;s going on though.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="mobile">
	<h2>Mobile issues</h2>
	<p>
		Yesterday, while I was out, my mobile shut off while I wasn&apos;t using it.
		When I went to use the camera, it wasn&apos;t powered on.
		Something was wrong.
		I intended to check the date on the thing after booting it back up, but because the process took so obnoxiously long, I totally forgot.
		Today, I noticed the time was way off, so I checked the date, and sure enough, that was way off too.
		It looks like yesterday&apos;s photograph predictably got the wrong timestamp too.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;m guessing the battery stopped providing power to the device, and it lost everything that wasn&apos;t saved to disk, including the current date and time.
		I mean, honestly, the battery literally has a crack in it that I taped back together with painting tape.
		I tried to buy a new battery online, but it never arrived in the mail.
		I haven&apos;t had time to search for a new battery to buy after that.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="laser">
	<h2>Hair-removing $a[laser]</h2>
	<p>
		The tracking information on the $a[laser] I ordered disappeared from the order-confirmation page.
		That worried me.
		They said that they&apos;d sent it, and they couldn&apos;t possibly <strong>*unsend*</strong> it, as far as I&apos;m aware.
		But maybe they hadn&apos;t actually sent it, and now they weren&apos;t <strong>*going*</strong> to send it.
		I decided that if the information wasn&apos;t back tomorrow, I&apos;d write to them and ask what was going on.
		Waiting another week for a package that might not have even been sent again isn&apos;t tops on my to-do list.
	</p>
	<p>
		After work though, I decided to log in to see if that changed anything.
		Without being logged in, my payment details and address were greyed out, so maybe there was more that being logged in would change.
		It was a long shot though, given that when logged out before, the tracking information always showed anyway.
		When I logged in, it didn&apos;t add the missing tracking summary back onto the page, but it <strong>*did*</strong> add a postal tracking number to the page.
		The postal website maliciously blocks $a[Tor] users, so I couldn&apos;t check on the package directly, but I know a third-party site that retrieves tracking data on your behalf.
		That site showed me that the package is definitely in-transit.
		I&apos;m not sure why the overview was removed from the order page, but now I have access to lower-level details about where the package is, so I guess this is a little better.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="tops">
	<h2>New tops</h2>
	<p>
		Every break between terms, I used to get myself something nice, such as a new top.
		I haven&apos;t been doing that over the past few terms though.
		I&apos;ve been going at things really hard, trying to get done what I need done, and haven&apos;t taken the time to actually treat myself.
		The other day, I saw a customer come in with a shirt in which the sleeves were pretty much just frills,
		They didn&apos;t have frills on them, they <strong>*were*</strong> just long frills.
		I&apos;d never seen a shirt like that!
		It was so basic, and the rest of the shirt was very plain, but I really wanted one for myself.
		I&apos;m not sure where I&apos;d get one though.
		And on top of that, I feel like I don&apos;t have anything particularly girly that looks good on me.
		I have a couple shirts I really like, but they all need an under shirt to look good on my fat body, and the under shirt makes them look less feminine.
		I was really reluctant to head to the dietary meeting tomorrow and talk to the person that offered me a swimsuit looking half manly, so today before work, I hit up the second-hand store.
		I found four shirts that look plenty feminine on me, including one that I thought for sure would show off how fat I am, but actually looks just fine on me.
		I picked up a fifth shirt too with an Egyptian theme because one of my workmates likes Egyptian mythology.
		If it doesn&apos;t fit them or they don&apos;t like it, I&apos;ll have that one too.
		Though it&apos;s not particularly feminine, it was in the women&apos;s section, so I guess it&apos;s technically a women&apos;s shirt.
		Anyway, I feel much better about my wardrobe now, and am looking forward to the meeting tomorrow.
	</p>
	<p>
		Usually when I go to the second-hand store before work, I go way too early and have to wait after shopping to clock in.
		This time, I waited before, so I didn&apos;t have to wait after.
		I think I figured out the problem, too.
		The obvious problem is that I think short shopping trips will take a lot longer than they do.
		But why?
		I&apos;m always in and out fairly quickly, but I tend to give myself about an hour, if not more.
		I think shopping trips being long was drilled into me by Summer.
		Se always either goes in for one thing, or for nothing in particular, then spends an hour or two looking at everything in the store, buying a tonne of things she doesn&apos;t even need so she can add them to her junk pile.
		I don&apos;t do that though, so shopping without her is always so much faster.
	</p>
	<p>
		Also of note, I feel a lot less awkward about clothes-shopping than I used to.
		I used to feel like people were staring; judging.
		Nobody actually cares though.
		And so what if they did?
		I mean, I&apos;m going to wear this stuff out in public anyway.
		Shopping is nothing.
		Maybe I&apos;m just getting things for my girlfriend that for all they know I have.
		It&apos;s the wearing of the clothing that actually matters.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="Summer">
	<h2>Not bothering with Summer</h2>
	<p>
		One of my neighbours asked about Summer tonight while I was washing laundry.
		They haven&apos;t seen her drop by in quite a while.
		I don&apos;t recall whether I mentioned this or not, but I&apos;ve also noticed that the signs she always unintentionally leaves that she&apos;s been here, such as the way she leaves the shower curtain half-closed after using the shower, haven&apos;t been appearing lately either.
		But anyway, it was clear to my neighbour that something was going on because she suddenly seemed to drop off the $a[radar] around here.
		I don&apos;t think I was as subtle with Summer as I&apos;d feared.
		I think she knows very well she&apos;s not wanted here, and I think she knows very well why.
		I&apos;m still going to write up my letter as a way to release my pent-up anger, but I don&apos;t think there&apos;s any need to actually deliver it.
		She knows as well as I do that we&apos;re not on good terms.
		If she ever decides she wants to try to make up, we can talk then.
		Until such a time, radio silence is what makes the most sense.
	</p>
</section>
END
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